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vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved voting machinewhereby a voter can register his vote by mechanical means, in which avoter can cast a straight ticket by pulling a single straight ticketlever which moves all of the keys of that party to their voted positionwithout moving the counters, after which the voter can pull back any ofthe keys which he does not desire to vote and vote others in theirstead.

My invention also contemplates the improvement of the interlockingsystem, as is shown in accompanying drawings in which the interlockingblocks are carried in channels or placed just back of the keys and runparallel with the otlice groups, an interlocking channel being used inconnection with each single oliice group of keys.

My invention also includes improved means whereby these parallelchannels of adjoining sections may be thrown together intonnilti-candidate groups.

.lt also provides improved means for a womans lock out and looking outof the yes and no and an improved form of countor-actuator and freeballot depositing device, together with a receptacle for the freeballots and improved means to prevent fraud in connection with the freeballot device of multi-candidate groups; also an improved means toprovide for the indorsed candidates in multi-candidate groups, and otherinventions shown and described in the accompanying drawings andspecifications.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of myimproved voting machine as it is erected ready for use in an election.Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofthe same machine, with its legs folded up so as to make the machine ascompact as possible for transportation. Fig. a is a top planSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 5,1913.

Serial No. 782,393.

view of the same. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the part of thekeyboard of the machine. Fig. 6 is a cross section on the line 6, 6, ofFig. 5, the section, however, not being taken through the counters. Fig.7 is a vertical section on the line 7 7, of Fig. (3. F 8 is a verticalsection through the machine, showing an interlocking channel, keys andcounters and free ballot device. Fig. 9 is a rear elevation of the lowerright hand corner of the interlocking system, showing a straightirregular lock out. Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation of one of the freeballot depositing devices. Fig. 11 is a sectional plan through themachine on the line 11, 11 in Fig. 12, showing the straight irregularand the single candidate irregular depositing device. Fig. 12 is asectional elevation of the straight irregular on the line 12, 12 in Fig.11. Fig. 13 is a sectional elevation through the free ballot depositingdevice showing the free ballot receptacle under the machine. Fig. 14: isa plan view of the base of the machine, with a portion of the base platebroken away, showing the free ballot receptacle below it. Fig. 15 is aperspective View of the top part of the back of the machine, showing theuniversal bars by means of which the counters are actuated. Fig. 16 is aperspective view of the interlocking channels and the womans lock out.Fig. 17 is a rear elevation of the womans lock out and the yes and nolock out. Fig. 18 is a detail of the yes and no lock out. Fig. 19 is asectional elevation of Fig. 17 on the line 19, 19. Fig. 20 is a sectionof the line 20, 20 in Fig. 17. Fig. 21 is a perspective view of the yesand no lock out. Fig. 22 is a front elevation of the yes and no lockout. Fig. 23 is a detailed view of the yes and no lock out. Fig. 24. isa detailed elevation of the arm on the end of the machine. Fig. 24 isthe pawl of the full stroke device of Fig. 24. Fig. 25 is a plan view onthe line 25, 25 of the Fig. 2%. Fig. 26 is a detail of the full strokedevice. Fig. 27 is a sectional elevation of the straight ticket leversof the machine. Fig. 28 is a detailed view of the straight ticket lever.Fig. 29 is a sectional elevation of the interlocking system of themachine. Fig. 30 is a rear elevation of the interlocking system of themachine. Fig. 231 is an elevation or the interlocking channel at the topof the machine which makes the interlocking system interchangeable. Fig.32 is a top plan View of 31. Fig. 33 is a section on the line 33, 33, ofFig. 31. Fig. 3% is a detailed perspective view of the adjusting blockof the top interlocking channel. Fig. 35 is a cross-section of the upperpart of the machine, showing the arrangement of the keys, counters,guides, universal bars and interlocking channels and the ope'ating partsand the supports. Fig. 36 is a sectional elevation, showing the detailof the means for fastening the face plates on the machine. Fig. 37 is asectional elevation of the machine as it may be constructed so that theoperation of every universal bar will be registered on a separatecounter. Fig. 38 is a perspective view of the voting key andinterlocking wedge provided with the indorsed candidate wedge. Fig. 39is a de tailed view of a holder that is used in the straight irregularor the irregular of the electoral ticket or of large multi-candidategroups.

In Fig. 1, reference character 50 refers to the body of the machine,which is supported on legs 51, which are hinged at the bottom of themachine at 52. These legs are braced to the bottom of the machine bymeans of the braces 53, which are connected to the bottom of the machineat 5 1 and to the legs at 55. These legs 51 turn up to the positionshown in Fig. 3, when it is desirable to pack the machine fortransportation, in which case the same braces 53 which lock the legsdown can also lock them up. The machine itself carries on the left handend in Fig. l a door or gate 56, which the voter swings before he castshis vote and swings again after he has cast it. This gate is pivoted ona shaft 57, which at the top carries a crank 58 which reciprocates aconnecting rod 59 by means of which the operating and resettingmechanism on each side of the machine is operated through a pin 60.

In Figs. 7 and 8, 61 refers to the voting key. This voting key projectsthrough suitable openings 62 in the face plate 63 of the machine, whichopenings are provided with collars 64, which are screw-threaded, as isshown in Fig. 7. The voting key has a slot 65 which embraces the pin orshaft 66 which pin carries the counters, the slot 65 enabling the key toslide back and forth on the shaft 66 which serves as a guide for it.Each voting key carries the pallets 67, and 68 by means of which thestar wheel 69 of the counter is actuated one-tenth of a revolution asthe voting key is reciprocated, by the combined efforts of the voter andthe machine. The star wheel 69 is carried on the shaft 7 0 which carriesthe transfer mechanism of the counter and has positively connected to ita gear of any number of teeth 71, which meshes with a gear of likenummovement, and the pallet 67 in that case is' stopped just short ofimparting any movement to the star wheel of the counter. W hen themachine is reset by the voter, the universal bar 76 is raised, and thecam 77 engages with the pin 74, pulling the pin farther in into therecess 78, by which time the universal bar has completed its upwardmovement. The universal bar then begins the descent, and the cam 78strikes the pin and shoves it out, then the flat surface 7 5 passes thepin, then the cam 79 engages with the pin and shoves it out stillfarther until the flat part 80 reaches the pin, when the downwardmovement of the universal bar is completed. The universal bar reachesthis position when the voter has completed swinging the gate 011 the endof the machine after he has finished voting, and as long as the gateremains in this position, all the keys on the machine will be lockedagainst movement, and while they are in this position, the pallet 68 isin engagement with the star wheel 69, which prevents its rotation, andas the counter is positively geared to the star wheel by the Geneva stopmovement, shown in Fig. 6, the movement of any of the counter wheels iseffectively prevented.

S1 refers to the main plate of the machine, which plate is shown invsection in Fig. 6. Between it and the keyboard of the machine is formeda compartment which contains the counters, and between it and the backplate 82 of the machine, as is shown in Fig. 13, is formed thecompartment which contains the interlocking mechanism, which by the mainplate of the machine is cori 'il-etely cut off from the counters, sothat when the inter locking mechanism alone is exposed the countingmechanism cannot be interfered with, and when the counting mechanismonly is exposed the interlocking mechanism cannot be interfered with,The voting key carries the pin 83 which is riveted to it, and on thispin is pivoted the interlocking wedge 84:, which is free to rotateabout. the pin and is detachable therefrom. This interlocking wedge isin fixed engagementwith the voting key and projects rearwardly therefromand passes between the interlocking blocks 85 carried in the channel 86,which is placed just behind each office group of keys and runs paralleltherewith. The channel is shown in sectional elevation in Fig. 8 and incross section in Fig. 11 and in perspective in Figs. 16 and 21. Thechannel is formed of sheets of thin brass which are drawn to the shapeshown in Fig. 16, two of these plates being placed facing each other andriveted together by the rivets 87 and spaced apartby the washers 88, sothat there is room enough in the slot 89 for the interlocking wedges topass into and through the channel from side to side. The rivets 87 andwashers 88 are placed at regular intervals along the channel to properlyhold the channel plates together and space them apart so as to keep theopening 89 of even width throughout the length of the channel, and theserivets are preferably placed just below the space where eachinterlocking wedge enters the channel, so that they do not in any wayinterfere with the relation between the interlocking wedges S 1 and thechannel blocks 85. The channel blocks are formed of thin pieces of metalthat are cut into required length, so that when the wedges and channelblocks are assembled in the channel, each wedge will be positioned at.the same angle with its voting key as are all the other wedges, and willconsequently make the same angle with the channel blocks. It will beseen from the drawings that the width of the interlocking blocks isplaced transversely of the wedges and that the ends are rounded, as isshown in Fig. 8, so as to reduce the error to a minimum as the wedgesare inserted and the blocks rise with them. These interlocking channelsare fastened atthe bottom to a channel plate 90, which runs the wholelength of the machine. This fastening is riveted by a pair of angleirons which may be clamped to the outside of the channel itself, inwhich case a spacing block must )e placed inside of .the channel to keepthe channel plates apart, or, preferably, 1 may use the angle ironsthemselves as the spacing block, so that. they will clamp between thechannel plates by .rivets which pass through both the channel plates andthe angle irons, as shown at the bottom of the channel in Fig. 8, theangle irons in turn in either case being clamped to the channel iron 90at the bottom of Fig. 8.

01 refers to the free ballot receptacle which is shown in the sectionalelevation in Fig. 8 and shown in plan in cross-section in Fig. 11. Thefree ballot receptacle has connected to it an angle iron 92 which isshaped in many respects just like any of the voting keys, with themodification that it does not operate any counter and it is not operatedby a straight ticket lever. It is provided with the slot 93, whichembraces a pin 9 1, which serves as a guide for it. it carries a pin T lsimilar to any other pin of the voting keys, which engages with a cam05, by means of which the free ballot mechanism is pulled in to depositthe ballot which it may contain when the arm on the end of the machineis operated by the voter. This slot is of such a shape as to carry thefree ballot mechanism in farther than any of the voting keys, as will beseen on a comparison betwen the position of the recesses 78 and the end96 of the cam 95, the object being to pull the free ballot mechanism infar enough to permit the free ballot to drop through the slot 97 in thebottom of the machine. The resetting of the free ballot mechanism isprovided for by the cam 98,.which serves to positively return the freeballot mechanism and lock it against operation. The ends 9S of thevoting keys, and 99 of the free ballot deposit-i11 mechanism, all passthrough slots 100 in the guide plate 101, as shown in Figs. 8, 15, 29,and By means of these plates, the voting keys are held to a strictlylongitudinal movement as they are moved back ward and forward either bythe voter or by the machine. Tiese guide plates 101 are formed as anangle iron and are fastened at the bottom of the machine to an angle at102, which in turn is fastened to the bottom plate in the machine 108,and at the top of the machine they are fastened to the angle iron 10st,which in turn is supported from the main plate of the machine by meansof the posts 105. The main plate of the machine is stiffened along thisline by means of the stifi'ening bar 106, which runs the whole length ofthe machine and supports both the posts 105 and the pivots 107 of theswinging cams 108. These guide plates 101 also serv guide plates for theuniversal bars 70. The universal bars 76 are provided with a slot 109 ateach end thereof, which slot engages with the pin 110 carried by theguide plate 101, so that by means of the guide plate and these pinscarried thereby in the slots at each end of the universal bar, theuniversal bar is guided in its reciprocation. that there is one of theseguide plates and one of these universal bars for each single candidategroup of keys or each vertical row of keys, each vertical rowconstituting a single candidate group. The interlocking channels 86 areconnected at the top to the grouping chani'iel 111, which runs the wholelength of the machine. Each channel 81; at its top carries a block whichis riveted between the channel plates and which is provided with a screwhole, with which the screw 112 engages, thus holding it longitudinallyin engagement with the channel 11.1 and forming a rigid structure inconnection therewith.

As may be seen from Fig. 8 and others, between each two wedges 8 1 isplaced a spacing or interlocking block 85, which arrangement iscontinued to the top of each channel, and on top of the top key isplaced the block 112, which has connected thereto a spear head 113,which is pivoted to the block 112 at 114-. As the keys are shoved in inany one channel, the wedges 8 1 spread the blocks 85 and raise the spearhead 113 It will be understood

